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A34 road
The A34 is a major road in England.
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A454 road
The A454 is a major road in central England.
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A74(M) and M74 motorways
The A74(M) and M74 form a major motorway in the United Kingdom, mainly in Scotland, with a short section in England.
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Absolutely Fabulous
Absolutely Fabulous, also known as Ab Fab, is a BBC sitcom created by, written by and starring Jennifer Saunders.
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Act of Parliament
Acts of Parliament, also called primary legislation, are statutes passed by a parliament (legislature).
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Aldridge
Aldridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England.
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Aldridge-Brownhills Urban District
Aldridge-Brownhills was an urban district in Staffordshire, England from 1966 to 1974.
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Alex Lester
Alexander Norman Charles "Alex" Lester (born 11 May 1956 in Walsall, Staffordshire) is a British broadcaster.
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Almshouse
An almshouse (also known as a poorhouse) is charitable housing provided to people in a particular community.
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Alumwell
Alumwell is a suburb on the west side of Walsall, in the West Midlands of England.
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Amritsar
Amritsar, historically also known as Rāmdāspur and colloquially as Ambarsar, is a city in north-western India which is the administrative headquarters of the Amritsar district - located in the Majha region of the Indian state of Punjab.
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Andrew Peach
Andrew Peach is a radio presenter in the United Kingdom.
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Anne, Princess Royal
Anne, Princess Royal, (Anne Elizabeth Alice Louise; born 15 August 1950) is the second child and only daughter of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh.
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Arboretum
An arboretum (plural: arboreta) in a general sense is a botanical collection composed exclusively of trees.
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Arrow
An arrow is a fin-stabilized projectile that is launched via a bow, and usually consists of a long straight stiff shaft with stabilizers called fletchings, as well as a weighty (and usually sharp and pointed) arrowhead attached to the front end, and a slot at the rear end called nock for engaging bowstring.
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Asda
Asda Stores Ltd. trading as Asda, is a British supermarket retailer, headquartered in Leeds, West Yorkshire.
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Aston Villa F.C.
Aston Villa Football Club (nicknamed Villa, The Villa, The Villans and The Lions) is a professional football club based in Aston, Birmingham, England.
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Audrey Roberts
Audrey Roberts (also Potter) is a fictional character from the ITV soap opera, Coronation Street, played by Sue Nicholls.
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B & M
B&M European Retail Value S.A. (also known as B&M Bargains and the larger B&M Homestore) was formed in 1978 and is now one of the leading variety retailers in the United Kingdom, employing over 28,000 staff.
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Babyfather
Babyfather is a BBC Two television programme which aired in the UK in 2001 and 2002.
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Bank
A bank is a financial institution that accepts deposits from the public and creates credit.
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Barr Beacon
Barr Beacon is a hill on the edge of Walsall, West Midlands, England, very near the border with Birmingham.
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Beecham Opera Company
The Beecham Opera Company was an opera company founded by Sir Thomas Beecham which presented opera in English in London and on tour between 1916 and 1920.
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Beechdale, West Midlands
Beechdale, originally named Gypsy Lane Estate, is a housing estate in Walsall, England, that was developed predominantly during the 1950s and 1960s.
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Bentley, West Midlands
Bentley is an area in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall located around Junction 10 of the M6 Motorway.
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Bescot
Bescot is an area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Bescot Stadium railway station
Bescot Stadium railway station serves the Bescot area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Bilston
Bilston is a town in the English county of West Midlands, situated in the southeastern corner of the City of Wolverhampton.
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Birchills
Birchills is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Birmingham
Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England, with an estimated population of 1,101,360, making it the second most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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Birmingham Airport
Birmingham Airport, formerly Birmingham International Airport and before that, Elmdon Airport, is an international airport located east southeast of Birmingham city centre, slightly north of Bickenhill in the Metropolitan Borough of Solihull, England.
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Birmingham New Street railway station
Birmingham New Street is the largest and busiest of the three main railway stations in the Birmingham City Centre, England.
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Black Country dialect
The Black Country dialect is spoken in the Black Country of England, that is to say the boroughs of Dudley, Sandwell, Walsall, and outlying parts of the city of Wolverhampton.
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Black Sabbath
Black Sabbath were an English rock band, formed in Birmingham in 1968, by guitarist and main songwriter Tony Iommi, bassist and main lyricist Geezer Butler, drummer Bill Ward and singer Ozzy Osbourne.
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Blackpool Illuminations
Blackpool Illuminations is an annual lights festival, founded in 1879 and first switched on 19 September that year, held each autumn in the British seaside resort of Blackpool on the Fylde Coast in Lancashire.
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Blakenall Heath
Blakenall Heath is a neighbourhood in Walsall, West Midlands, England.
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Bletchley Park
Bletchley Park was the central site for British (and subsequently, Allied) codebreakers during World War II.
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Bloxwich
Bloxwich is a small town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, West Midlands, England, situated in the north of the borough and forming part of the Staffordshire/West Midlands border.
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Blue Peter
Blue Peter is a British children's television programme, currently shown live on the CBBC television channel.
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Bob Warman
Robert Paul Warman (born 11 October 1946) is an English television presenter.
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Borough
A borough is an administrative division in various English-speaking countries.
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Brierley Hill
Brierley Hill is a small town and electoral ward of the Dudley Metropolitan Borough, in the West Midlands of England, and is situated approximately 2.5 miles south of central Dudley and 2 miles north of Stourbridge.
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Britain's Got Talent (series 1)
Series One of Britain's Got Talent, a British talent competition series, began broadcasting in the UK during 2007, from 9 June to 17 June on ITV.
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British and Irish Lions
The British & Irish Lions is a rugby union team selected from players eligible for any of the Home Nations – the national teams of England, Scotland, and Wales – and Ireland.
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British Home Stores
British Home Stores, commonly abbreviated to BHS and latterly legally styled BHS Ltd, was a British department store chain, primarily selling clothing and household items.
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British National Opera Company
The British National Opera Company presented opera in English in London and on tour in the British provinces between 1922 and 1929.
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British Social Attitudes Survey
The British Social Attitudes Survey (BSA) is an annual statistical survey conducted in Great Britain by National Centre for Social Research since 1983.
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Brownhills
Brownhills is a town in the West Midlands, England.
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Brownhills School
Brownhills School is a mixed secondary school and sixth form located in Brownhills in the West Midlands of England.
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Bruce George
Bruce Thomas George (born 1 June 1942) is a British Labour Party politician, who served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall South from February 1974 until April 2010.
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Brummie
Brummie or Brummy is the English dialect of Birmingham, England.
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Bull-baiting
Bull-baiting is a blood sport involving pitting a bull against another animal, usually a dog.
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Caldmore
Caldmore is one of the villages that make up the town of Walsall.
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Cannock
Cannock, as of the 2011 census, has a population of 29,018, and is the most populous of the three towns in the district of Cannock Chase in the central southern part of the county of Staffordshire in the West Midlands region of England.
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Cannock Chase murders
The Cannock Chase murders (also known as the A34 murders) were the murders of three young school girls that occurred in Staffordshire, England, during the late 1960s.
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Catherine of Aragon
Catherine of Aragon (16 December 1485 – 7 January 1536), was Queen of England from June 1509 until May 1533 as the first wife of King Henry VIII; she was previously Princess of Wales as the wife of Henry's elder brother Arthur.
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Celtic Britons
The Britons, also known as Celtic Britons or Ancient Britons, were Celtic people who inhabited Great Britain from the British Iron Age into the Middle Ages, at which point their culture and language diverged into the modern Welsh, Cornish and Bretons (among others).
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Cenotaph
A cenotaph is an empty tomb or a monument erected in honour of a person or group of people whose remains are elsewhere.
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Charles, Prince of Wales
Charles, Prince of Wales (Charles Philip Arthur George; born 14 November 1948) is the heir apparent to the British throne as the eldest child of Queen Elizabeth II.
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Chasetown
Chasetown is a village and area in the town of Burntwood in Staffordshire, England.
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Christianity
ChristianityFrom Ancient Greek Χριστός Khristós (Latinized as Christus), translating Hebrew מָשִׁיחַ, Māšîăḥ, meaning "the anointed one", with the Latin suffixes -ian and -itas.
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Chuckery
Chuckery is a small suburb of Walsall located a mile from the town centre.
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Claude Monet
Oscar-Claude Monet (14 November 1840 – 5 December 1926) was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein air landscape painting.
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Clay
Clay is a finely-grained natural rock or soil material that combines one or more clay minerals with possible traces of quartz (SiO2), metal oxides (Al2O3, MgO etc.) and organic matter.
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Clothing
Clothing (also known as clothes and attire) is a collective term for garments, items worn on the body.
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Co-op Food
Co-op Food, previously trading as The Co-operative Food, is a brand devised for the food retail business of the consumer co-operative movement in the United Kingdom.
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Coal Pool
Coal Pool is a housing estate in Walsall, West Midlands, England.
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Cockfight
A cockfight is a blood sport between two cocks, or gamecocks, held in a ring called a cockpit.
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Colin Charvis
Colin Charvis (born 27 December 1972) is a former captain of the Wales national rugby union team and also played for the British and Irish lions.
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Confederation of British Industry
The Confederation of British Industry is a UK business organisation, which in total speaks for 190,000 businesses, made up of around 1,500 direct and 188,500 indirect members.
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Connie Talbot
Connie Talbot (born 20 November 2000) is a British teen singer.
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Coping With
The Coping With series of books is a series of books aimed at 11- to 16-year-olds, written by Peter Corey and published by Scholastic Hippo.
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Coronation Street
Coronation Street (also informally referred to as Corrie) is a British soap opera created by Granada Television and shown on ITV since 9 December 1960.
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Critics' Choice (Brit Award)
The Critics' Choice Award is an award given by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), an organisation which represents record companies and artists in the United Kingdom.
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Cue sports
Cue sports (sometimes written cuesports), also known as billiard sports, are a wide variety of games of skill generally played with a cue stick, which is used to strike billiard balls and thereby cause them to move around a cloth-covered billiards table bounded by elastic bumpers known as.
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Darlaston
Darlaston is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Dave Walker
David "Dave" Walker (born 25 January 1945) is a singer and guitarist who has been front-man for a number of bands; most notably Idle Race, Savoy Brown, Fleetwood Mac, and, briefly, Black Sabbath.
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David Ennals, Baron Ennals
David Hedley Ennals, Baron Ennals, (19 August 1922 – 17 June 1995) was a British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights.
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David J. Brown (cricketer, born 1942)
David John Brown (born 30 January 1942, in Walsall, Staffordshire) is a former English cricketer who played in twenty six Tests from 1965 to 1969.
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David Platt (darts player)
David Robert Platt (born 22 April 1966) is an English-born Australian darts player who competes in the British Darts Organisation tournaments.
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David Winnick
David Julian Winnick (born 26 June 1933) is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Walsall North between 1979 and 2017.
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Debenhams
Debenhams plc is a British multinational retailer operating under a department store format in the United Kingdom and Ireland with franchise stores in other countries. The company was founded in the eighteenth century as a single store in London and has now grown to 178 locations across the UK, Ireland and Denmark. It sells a range of clothing, household items and furniture and has been known since 1993 for its 'Designers at Debenhams' brand range. Headquartered in Regent's Place in the London Borough of Camden, Debenhams is listed on the London Stock Exchange. The company owns the Danish department store chain, Magasin du Nord, and has a subsidiary in Ireland.
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Deichmann SE
Deichmann SE (formerly Heinrich Deichmann-Schuhe GmbH & Co. KG) is a major German shoe and sportswear retail chain.
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Doctors (BBC TV series)
Doctors is a continuing British medical soap opera which first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 26 March 2000.
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Dogfights (TV series)
Dogfights is a military aviation themed TV series depicting historical re-enactments of air-to-air combat that took place in World War I, World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War, as well as smaller conflicts such as the Gulf War and the Six-Day War.
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Domesday Book
Domesday Book (or; Latin: Liber de Wintonia "Book of Winchester") is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William the Conqueror.
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Don Gilet
Don Gilet (born 17 January 1967) is a British actor, best known for his roles in BBC productions Babyfather, EastEnders and 55 Degrees North.
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Dover (UK Parliament constituency)
Dover is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
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Dudley
Dudley is a large town in the county of West Midlands, England, south-east of Wolverhampton and north-west of Birmingham.
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Earl of Bradford
Earl of Bradford is a title that has been created twice, once in the Peerage of England and once in the Peerage of the United Kingdom.
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EastEnders
EastEnders is a British soap opera created by Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since 1985.
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Eddie Hughes (British politician)
Edmund Francis Hughes (born 3 October 1968) is an English Conservative Party politician.
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EFL League One
The English Football League One (often referred to as League One for short or Sky Bet League One for sponsorship reasons) is the second-highest division of the English Football League and the third tier overall in the entire English football league system.
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Elizabeth I of England
Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death on 24 March 1603.
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Elizabeth II
Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.
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Ellie Simmonds
Eleanor May Simmonds, OBE (born 11 November 1994) is a British Paralympian swimmer competing in S6 events.
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Ensign Racing
Ensign was a Formula One constructor from Britain.
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Erin O'Connor
Erin O'Connor MBE (born 9 February 1978) is an English model.
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Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac are a British-American rock band, formed in London in 1967.
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Flying ace
A flying ace, fighter ace or air ace is a military aviator credited with shooting down several enemy aircraft during aerial combat.
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Ford of Britain
Ford of Britain (officially Ford Motor Company Limited)The Ford 'companies' or corporate entities referred to in this article are.
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Formula One
Formula One (also Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of single-seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) and owned by the Formula One Group.
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Francis Asbury
Francis Asbury (August 20 or 21, 1745 – March 31, 1816) was one of the first two bishops of the Methodist Episcopal Church in the United States.
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Francis Goodwin (architect)
Francis Goodwin (23 May 1784 – 30 August 1835) was an English architect.
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Frank Mullings
Frank Mullings (10 March 1881 – 19 May 1953) was a leading English tenor with Sir Thomas Beecham's Beecham Opera Company and its successor, the British National Opera Company, during the 1910s and 1920s.
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Frank Windsor
Frank Windsor (born Frank W. Higgins; 12 July 1927) is a British actor, mainly on television.
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Fred Bakewell
Fred Bakewell (Alfred Harry Bakewell; 2 November 1908 in Walsall, Staffordshire, England – 23 January 1983 in Westbourne, Dorset, England) was a Northamptonshire and England opening batsman who was renowned as one of the most exciting players of his time, largely owing to his unorthodox methods, which allowed him to play some of the most brilliant innings in county cricket, despite the fact that his county, Northamptonshire, was exceptionally weak throughout his career: he was always the only class batsman in the team in the years before his career was ended by a serious car accident in 1936.
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Frederick J. Gibbs
Captain Frederick John Gibbs was a British World War I flying ace credited with 11 official victories.
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Fullbrook
Fullbrook is a surname.
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Further education
Further education (often abbreviated FE) in the United Kingdom and Ireland is education in addition to that received at secondary school, that is distinct from the higher education (HE) offered in universities and other academic institutions.
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Gasworks
A gasworks or gas house is an industrial plant for the production of flammable gas.
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Glasgow
Glasgow (Glesga; Glaschu) is the largest city in Scotland, and third most populous in the United Kingdom.
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Goldie
Clifford Joseph Price, MBE (born 19 September 1965), better known by his stage name Goldie, is an English musician, DJ, visual artist and actor from Walsall.
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Goscote Wapentake
Goscote was a wapentake in the county of Leicestershire, England; consisting of the north and north-west of the county.
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Goscote, Walsall
Goscote is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Grand Central tram stop
Grand Central for New Street Station tram stop is a tram stop on the city-centre extension of Line 1 of the Midland Metro.
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Grand Junction Railway
The Grand Junction Railway (GJR) was an early railway company in the United Kingdom, which existed between 1833 and 1846 when it was amalgamated with other railways to form the London and North Western Railway.
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Great Barr
Great Barr is a large and loosely defined area in north-west Birmingham, England.
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Harden, Walsall
Harden is an area to the north of Walsall and borders with Bloxwich, Blakenall Heath, Coalpool, Goscote and Rushall.
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Harmar Nicholls
Harmar Harmar-Nicholls, Baron Harmar-Nicholls (1 November 1912 – 15 September 2000), known as Sir Harmar Nicholls, 1st Baronet, from 1960 to 1975, was a British Conservative Party politician.
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Harry Hinsley
Sir Francis Harry Hinsley OBE (26 November 1918 – 16 February 1998) was an English historian and cryptanalyst.
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Harry Moore Dauncey
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Hayley Mills
Hayley Catherine Rose Vivien Mills (born 18 April 1946) is an English actress.
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Henrietta Maria of France
Henrietta Maria of France (Henriette Marie; 25 November 1609 – 10 September 1669) was queen consort of England, Scotland, and Ireland as the wife of King Charles I. She was mother of his two immediate successors, Charles II and James II/VII.
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Henry Newbolt
Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH (6 June 1862 – 19 April 1938) was an English poet, novelist and historian.
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Hi-de-Hi!
Hi-de-Hi! is a BBC television sitcom shown on BBC1 from 1 January 1980 to 30 January 1988.
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Highgate, Walsall
Highgate is a small village located within the Walsall Ring Road.
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Hippopotamus
The common hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius), or hippo, is a large, mostly herbivorous, semiaquatic mammal native to sub-Saharan Africa, and one of only two extant species in the family Hippopotamidae, the other being the pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis or Hexaprotodon liberiensis).
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Historic counties of England
The historic counties of England are areas that were established for administration by the Normans, in many cases based on earlier kingdoms and shires created by the Anglo-Saxons and others.
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Homeserve
HomeServe PLC is a home emergency repairs business.
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Hydesville Tower School
Hydesville Tower School is a coeducational independent school located in Walsall in the West Midlands, England.
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Illuminations (festival)
Illuminations are secular Autumn festivals of electric light held in several English cities, towns and villages, in particular.
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Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.
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Islam
IslamThere are ten pronunciations of Islam in English, differing in whether the first or second syllable has the stress, whether the s is or, and whether the a is pronounced, or (when the stress is on the first syllable) (Merriam Webster).
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J. M. W. Turner
Joseph Mallord William Turner (23 April 177519 December 1851), known as J. M. W. Turner and contemporarily as William Turner, was an English Romantic painter, printmaker and watercolourist, known for his expressive colourisation, imaginative landscapes and turbulent, often violent marine paintings.
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Jacob Epstein
Sir Jacob Epstein (10 November 1880 – 19 August 1959) was an American-British sculptor who helped pioneer modern sculpture.
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Jeffrey Holland
Jeffrey Holland (born Jeffrey Michael Parkes, 17 July 1946) is an English actor well known for roles in television sitcoms, playing camp comic at the Maplin's holiday camp in Hi-de-Hi!, as well as BBC Radio comedy, including Week Ending.
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Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge
Jennifer Louise Tonge, Baroness Tonge (née Smith; born 19 February 1941) is a politician in the United Kingdom.
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Jerome K. Jerome
Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humorist, best known for the comic travelogue Three Men in a Boat (1889).
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John Byrne (comics)
John Lindley Byrne (born July 6, 1950) is an American comics artist and writer. Since the mid-1970s, Byrne has worked on many major superheroes. Byrne's better-known work has been on Marvel Comics' X-Men and Fantastic Four and the 1986 relaunch of DC Comics' Superman franchise, the first issue of which featured comics' first variant cover. Coming into the comics profession as penciller, inker, letterer and writer on his earliest work, Byrne began co-plotting the X-Men comics during his tenure on them, and launched his writing career in earnest with Fantastic Four (where he also served as penciler and inker). During the 1990s he produced a number of creator-owned works, including Next Men and Danger Unlimited. He scripted the first issues of Mike Mignola's Hellboy series and produced a number of Star Trek comics for IDW Publishing. In 2015, Byrne and his X-Men collaborator Chris Claremont were entered into the Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame. He is the co-creator of such Marvel characters as Kitty Pryde, Emma Frost, Sabretooth, Shadow King, Scott Lang (Ant-Man), Bishop, Omega Red and Rachel Summers.
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John Constable
John Constable, (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the naturalistic tradition.
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John Henry Carless
John Henry Carless (11 November 1896 – 17 November 1917) was a British recipient of the Victoria Cross during the First World War.
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John Major
Sir John Major (born 29 March 1943) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1990 to 1997.
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John Stonehouse
John Thomson Stonehouse (28 July 192514 April 1988) was a British Labour and Co-operative Party politician and junior minister under Harold Wilson.
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Jorja Smith
Jorja Alice Smith (born 11 June 1997) is an English singer from Walsall, West Midlands.
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Judas Priest
Judas Priest are an English heavy metal band formed in West Bromwich in 1969.
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Kobar
Kobar (كوبر) is a Palestinian village in the Ramallah and al-Bireh Governorate in the northern West Bank.
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Le Blanc-Mesnil
Le Blanc-Mesnil is a commune in the northeastern suburbs of Paris, France.
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Leamore
Leamore is a mix of private and council housing, built since the late 19th century.
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Leila Williams
Leila Williams (born 1937) is a former British beauty queen and television presenter.
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Len Peach
Sir Leonard Harry Peach (17 December 1932 – 5 August 2016) was Chief Executive of the National Health Service from 1986-89.
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Lichfield
Lichfield is a cathedral city and civil parish in Staffordshire, England.
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Limestone
Limestone is a sedimentary rock, composed mainly of skeletal fragments of marine organisms such as coral, forams and molluscs.
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List of English districts by population
List of the 326 districts of England (English Municipalities) by population, estimated figures for from the Office for National Statistics.
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List of horse racing venues
Happy Valley Racecourse, Hongkong, 2008 Racecourse in Kyoto, Japan, 1997 Hippodrom Moscow, 2007 Winter-Rennbahn St. Moritz, 1931 Hippodrome d'Arnac-Pompadour, France, 2008 Churchill Downs, Kentucky, 2007 Jockey Club Brasileiro, Hipódromo da Gávea, Rio de Janeiro, 2010 Royal Bangkok Sport Club, Thailand 2008 Ellerslie Racecourse, New Zealand, 1908 This is a list of currently active horse racing venues (Thoroughbred racing and harness racing), sorted by country.
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London
London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.
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LZ 61 (L 21)
The LZ 61 was a World War I German Navy airship, allocated the tactical numbering 'L 21'.
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M1 motorway
The M1 is a motorway in England connecting London to Leeds, where it joins the A1(M) near Aberford, to connect to Newcastle.
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M42 motorway
The M42 motorway is a major road in England.
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M6 motorway
The M6 motorway runs from junction 19 of the M1 at the Catthorpe Interchange, near Rugby via Birmingham then heads north, passing Stoke-on-Trent, Liverpool, Manchester, Preston, Lancaster, Carlisle and terminating at the Gretna junction (J45).
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Made in Birmingham
Made in Birmingham is a local television station, serving Birmingham, the Black Country, Wolverhampton and Solihull in the West Midlands of England.
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Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England, with a population of 530,300.
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Mark Grundy
Sir Mark Grundy, KB, current Head Teacher of Shireland Language College, Sandwell, Warley, West Midlands, England, was knighted by the queen in 2006 for "his work at George Salter High School in West Bromwich, as well as his work in ICT".
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Mark Lewis-Francis
Mark Anthony Lewis-Francis, MBE (born 4 September 1982) is a British track and field athlete, specifically a sprinter, who specialises in the 100 metres.
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Mark Rhodes
Mark Thomas Rhodes (born 11 September 1981) is an English singer and television presenter.
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Market town
Market town or market right is a legal term, originating in the Middle Ages, for a European settlement that has the right to host markets, distinguishing it from a village and city.
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Marks & Spencer
Marks & Spencer Group plc (also known as M&S) is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in the City of Westminster, London.
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Martin Degville
Martin Degville is (born 27 January 1961Strong, Martin C. (1999) The Great Alternative & Indie Discography, Canongate,, p. 564-5 in Walsall) is the lead singer and co-songwriter of the UK pop band, Sigue Sigue Sputnik – which had a worldwide hit single in 1986 with "Love Missile F1-11" – and six other EMI single releases.
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Martin Fowler
Martin Fowler (born 1963) is a British software developer, author and international public speaker on software development, specializing in object-oriented analysis and design, UML, patterns, and agile software development methodologies, including extreme programming.
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Matthew Marsden
Matthew Marsden (born 3 March 1973) is an English actor, producer, singer and model. He has appeared in films such as Helen of Troy, Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid, Tamara, Resident Evil: Extinction, Rambo, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and Atlas Shrugged.
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Meera Syal
Meera Syal, CBE (born Feroza Syal; 27 June 1961) is a British comedian, writer, playwright, singer, journalist, producer and actress.
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Mellish Road Methodist Chapel
Mellish Road Methodist Chapel was a grade II listed Methodist chapel in Mellish Road, Walsall, England, built in 1910.
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Merry Hill Shopping Centre
The Merry Hill Centre (officially Intu Merry Hill) is a shopping mall in Brierley Hill near Dudley, England.
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Metropolitan Borough of Walsall
The Metropolitan Borough of Walsall is a local government district in the West Midlands, England, with the status of a metropolitan borough.
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Michael L. Fitzgerald
Michael Louis Fitzgerald (born 17 August 1937) is a British Roman Catholic prelate of the Catholic Church and an expert on Muslim-Christian relations.
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Michaelmas
Michaelmas (also known as the Feast of Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Sosa, the Feast of the Archangels, or the Feast of Saint Michael and All Angels) is a minor Christian festival observed in some Western liturgical calendars on 29 September.
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Midlands 1 West
Midlands 1 West is an English level 6 rugby union regional league for rugby clubs in the western region of the Midlands, including sides from Herefordshire, Shropshire, Staffordshire, Warwickshire, Birmingham and the West Midlands, Worcestershire and occasionally Cheshire, Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Oxfordshire. The league champions are promoted to Midlands Premier and the runner-up play against the second placed team from Midlands 1 East for the second promotion place. The last three teams are relegated to Midlands 2 West (North) or Midlands 2 West (South) depending on geographical location.
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Mulhouse
Mulhouse (Alsatian: Milhüsa or Milhüse,;; i.e. mill house) is a city and commune in eastern France, close to the Swiss and German borders.
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Nando's
Nando's is an international casual dining restaurant chain originating in South Africa.
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National Health Service
The National Health Service (NHS) is the name used for each of the public health services in the United Kingdom – the National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland – as well as a term to describe them collectively.
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New Look (company)
New Look is a British global fashion retailer with a chain of high street shops.
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Next (restaurant)
Next is a restaurant in Chicago.
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Nick Gillingham
Nicholas Gillingham, MBE (born 22 January 1967) is an English former competitive swimmer who represented Great Britain in the Olympics, FINA world championships and European championships, and England in the Commonwealth Games.
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Nick Redfern
Nicholas Redfern (born 1964 in Pelsall, Walsall) is a British best-selling author, Ufologist and Cryptozoologist now living in Dallas, Texas, United States.
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Noddy Holder
Neville John "Noddy" Holder, (born 15 June 1946) is an English musician and actor.
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Norwich North (UK Parliament constituency)
Norwich North is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2009 by Chloe Smith, a Conservative.
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Oldbury, West Midlands
Oldbury is a town in Sandwell, West Midlands, England.
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Palestinian territories
Palestinian territories and occupied Palestinian territories (OPT or oPt) are terms often used to describe the West Bank (including East Jerusalem) and the Gaza Strip, which are occupied or otherwise under the control of Israel.
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Palfrey
A palfrey is a type of horse that was highly valued as a riding horse in the Middle Ages.
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Palfrey, West Midlands
Palfrey is a neighbourhood in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands.
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Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (PNG;,; Papua Niugini; Hiri Motu: Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an Oceanian country that occupies the eastern half of the island of New Guinea and its offshore islands in Melanesia, a region of the southwestern Pacific Ocean north of Australia.
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Park Hall
Park Hall is an area within, but near to the south-eastern edge of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Parsifal
Parsifal (WWV 111) is an opera in three acts by German composer Richard Wagner.
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Paul McDonald (writer)
Paul McDonald (born 1961 in Walsall) is a British academic, comic novelist, and poet.
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Peafowl
The peafowl include three species of birds in the genera Pavo and Afropavo of the Phasianidae family, the pheasants and their allies.
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Pelsall
Pelsall is a suburban village and civil parish, situated in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands, England.
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Pelsall Comprehensive School
Pelsall Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Pelsall, an area of the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Penny (British pre-decimal coin)
The pre-decimal penny (1d) was a coin worth of a pound sterling.
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Peter Corey
Peter Corey (born 1946) is the author of the Coping With children's book series.
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Peter McEnery
Peter Robert McEnery (born 21 February 1940) is an English stage and film actor.
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Peterborough (UK Parliament constituency)
Peterborough is a borough constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament.
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Pheasey
Pheasey is a residential area of Walsall Metropolitan Borough in the West Midlands of England, often considered to be part of Great Barr.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, commonly known as Auguste Renoir (25 February 1841 – 3 December 1919), was a French artist who was a leading painter in the development of the Impressionist style.
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Pleck
Pleck, in the borough of Walsall, neighbours Palfrey and stretches from the bridge on Wednesbury Road to Junction 9 of the M6 motorway.
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Pop Idol
Pop Idol is a British television music competition created by Simon Fuller which ran on ITV from 2001 to 2003.
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Poundland
Poundland is a British variety store chain founded in 1990, with a single price-point on most items costing £1, including clearance items as well as proprietary brands.
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Premier Inn
Premier Inn is a British hotel chain and the UK's largest hotel brand, with more than 65,000 rooms and 750 hotels.
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Primark
Primark (known as Penneys in the Republic of Ireland) is an Irish clothing and accessories company which is a subsidiary of AB Foods, and is headquartered in Dublin.
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Queen Mary's Grammar School
Queen Mary's Grammar School (QMGS) is a selective boys' grammar school with academy status located in Sutton Road, Walsall, England, about a mile from the town centre and one of the oldest schools in the country.
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Queen Mary's High School
Queen Mary's High School, situated on Upper Forster Street, just outside Walsall town centre, is an all-female selective-education and grammar school and entry in Year 7 is by passing an entrance exam.
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RAC Limited
RAC Limited (The RAC) is a British automotive services company headquartered in Walsall, West Midlands.
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Rachel Unitt
Rachel Elizabeth Unitt (born 5 June 1982) is an English footballer who plays for FA WSL club Solihull.
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Richmond Park (UK Parliament constituency)
Richmond Park is a parliamentary constituency represented in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom since 2017 by Zac Goldsmith, of the Conservative Party.
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River Island
River Island is a London-headquartered high street fashion brand, which operates in a number of worldwide markets.
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Rob Collins (musician)
Robert James "Rob" Collins (23 February 1963 – 22 July 1996) was an English musician best known as the original keyboardist of The Charlatans.
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Rob Halford
Robert John Arthur Halford (born 25 August 1951) is an English singer and songwriter, who is best known as the lead vocalist for the Grammy Award-winning heavy metal band Judas Priest and famed for his powerful wide-ranging voice.
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Round Oak Steel Terminal
Round Oak Steel Terminal is a railway freight terminal dealing in steel from the Round Oak Steel Works until 1982 and from other sources thereafter, in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, England managed by Tata Steel Europe.
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Rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known in most of the world as rugby, is a contact team sport which originated in England in the first half of the 19th century.
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Rugeley Trent Valley railway station
Rugeley Trent Valley is a railway station located on the outskirts of Rugeley in Staffordshire, England.
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Rushall, West Midlands
Rushall is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands, England, centred on the main road between Walsall and Lichfield, and was mostly developed after 1920.
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Ryecroft, West Midlands
Ryecroft is a residential area of Walsall in the West Midlands of England.
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Saddle
The saddle is a supportive structure for a rider or other load, fastened to an animal's back by a girth.
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Saddlers Centre
The Saddlers Centre is a shopping centre located in Walsall, West Midlands, United Kingdom.
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Savoy Brown
Savoy Brown, originally known as the Savoy Brown Blues Band, are an English blues rock band formed in Battersea, south west London in 1965.
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Schneider Trophy
The Coupe d'Aviation Maritime Jacques Schneider, commonly called the Schneider Trophy or Schneider Prize (sometimes incorrectly referred to as the Schneider Cup, a different prize), was a trophy awarded annually (and later, biannually) to the winner of a race for seaplanes and flying boats.
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Secretary of State for Social Services
The Secretary of State for Health and Social Services was a position in the UK cabinet, created on 1 November 1968 with responsibility for the Department of Health and Social Security.
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Shelfield
Shelfield is a small village to the north of Walsall in the West Midlands conurbation.
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Shia Islam
Shia (شيعة Shīʿah, from Shīʻatu ʻAlī, "followers of Ali") is a branch of Islam which holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated Ali ibn Abi Talib as his successor (Imam), most notably at the event of Ghadir Khumm.
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Sidney Webster
Air Vice-Marshal Sidney Norman Webster CBE AFC* (1900–1984) was an English aviator, a senior officer in the Royal Air Force who flew the winning aircraft in the 1927 Schneider Trophy seaplane race.
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Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Sigue Sigue Sputnik were a British new wave band formed in 1982 by former Generation X bassist Tony James.
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Sister Dora
Dorothy Wyndlow Pattison, better known as Sister Dora (16 January 1832 - 24 December 1878), was a 19th-century Anglican nun and a nurse in Walsall, Staffordshire.
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Slade
Slade are an English rock band from Wolverhampton.
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Smyths
Smyths Toys Superstores is an Irish multinational chain provider of children's toys and entertainment products with over 110 shops throughout Ireland and the UK, and it is owned by the Smyth family.
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South Staffordshire Water
South Staffordshire Water plc known as South Staffs Water is a UK water supply company owned by a privately owned utilities company serving parts of Staffordshire, Derbyshire and the West Midlands, England.
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St Francis of Assisi Catholic Technology College
St.
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St Martin's Church, Walsall
St Martin's Church is situated in the West Midlands town of Walsall on the corner of Sutton Road and Daffodil Road.
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St. Paul's Bus Station, Walsall
St Paul's Bus Station is one of two bus stations located in the town of Walsall in the West Midlands, England.
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Staffordshire
Staffordshire (abbreviated Staffs) is a landlocked county in the West Midlands of England.
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Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain.
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Stourbridge
Stourbridge is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Dudley, in the West Midlands county of England.
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Streetly
Streetly is a village in the West Midlands region of England which lies around 8 miles to the north of Birmingham City Centre.
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Sue Nicholls
Susan Yvette Nicholls-Eden (born 23 November 1943) is an English actress, known for her long-running role as Audrey Roberts in the British soap opera Coronation Street.
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Sunni Islam
Sunni Islam is the largest denomination of Islam.
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Sutton Coldfield
The Royal Town of Sutton Coldfield, more colloquially known as Sutton Coldfield or simply Sutton, is a town and civil parish in Birmingham, West Midlands, England.
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T. J. Hughes
T.
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T. P. Riley Comprehensive School
T.
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Terence Beckett
Sir Terence Norman Beckett, KBE (13 December 1923 – 2 May 2013) was a British businessman, who was chairman of Ford and later became director-general of the Confederation of British Industry.
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Terry Holbrook
Terence Holbrook (born 6 December 1945) is an English football referee formerly in the Football League and Premier League.
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Tesco
Tesco plc, trading as Tesco, is a British multinational groceries and general merchandise retailer with headquarters in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom.
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The Charlatans (English band)
The Charlatans (known in the United States as The Charlatans UK) are an English indie rock band.
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The Delves
The Delves is a neighbourhood located in the south side of Walsall between Palfrey and Yew Tree estate in Walsall located on the outskirts of Walsall just before Sandwell.
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The Entertainer (retailer)
The Entertainer (Amersham) Ltd. is the UK's largest independent toy retailer, which operates 144 stores.
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The Idle Race
The Idle Race were a British rock group from Birmingham in the late 1960s and early 1970s who had a cult following but never enjoyed mass commercial success.
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The Kumars at No. 42
The Kumars at No.
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The Midlands
The Midlands is a cultural and geographic area roughly spanning central England that broadly corresponds to the early medieval Kingdom of Mercia.
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The Moon-Spinners
The Moon-Spinners is a 1964 American Walt Disney Productions feature film starring Hayley Mills, Eli Wallach and Peter McEnery in a story about a jewel thief hiding on the island of Crete.
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The New Art Gallery Walsall
The New Art Gallery Walsall is a modern and contemporary art gallery sited in the centre of the West Midlands town of Walsall, England.
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Thieves and Kings
Thieves and Kings (stylized as Thieves & Kings) is a Canadian comic book series written, penciled and published independently and irregularly by Mark Oakley.
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Three Men in a Boat
Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog),The Penguin edition punctuates the title differently: Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog! published in 1889, is a humorous account by English writer Jerome K. Jerome of a two-week boating holiday on the Thames from Kingston upon Thames to Oxford and back to Kingston.
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TK Maxx
TK Maxx, often stylised as "T·k·maxx", is a subsidiary of the American apparel and home goods company TJX Companies based in Framingham, Massachusetts.
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Tom Major-Ball
Tom Major-Ball (18 May 1879 – 27 March 1962) was a British music hall and circus performer.
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Town centre
A town centre is the commercial or geographical centre or core area of a town.
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Tram-train
A tram-train is a light-rail public transport system where trams run through from an urban tramway network to main-line railway lines which are shared with conventional trains.
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Tudor rose
The Tudor rose (sometimes called the Union rose) is the traditional floral heraldic emblem of England and takes its name and origins from the House of Tudor, which united the House of York and House of Lancaster.
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United Kingdom census, 2001
A nationwide census, known as Census 2001, was conducted in the United Kingdom on Sunday, 29 April 2001.
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University of Wolverhampton
The University of Wolverhampton is an English university located on four campuses across the West Midlands, Shropshire and Staffordshire.
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Ural Mountains
The Ural Mountains (p), or simply the Urals, are a mountain range that runs approximately from north to south through western Russia, from the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the Ural River and northwestern Kazakhstan.
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USC (clothing retailer)
USC is a clothing retailer that sells branded clothing across the United Kingdom.
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Valerie Vaz
Valerie Carol Marian Vaz (born 7 December 1954) is a British politician and solicitor.
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Vaughan Lee (fighter)
Vaughan Lee Harvey (born) is an English mixed martial artist currently competing in the Bantamweight division.
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Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross (VC) is the highest award of the British honours system.
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Vincent van Gogh
Vincent Willem van Gogh (30 March 185329 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.
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Wales national rugby union team
The Wales national rugby union team (Tîm rygbi'r undeb cenedlaethol Cymru) competes annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland.
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Walsall
Walsall is an industrial town in the West Midlands of England.
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Walsall Aerodrome
Walsall Aerodrome, also known as Walsall Airport, Walsall Municipal Airport, and later as Walsall Aldridge Airport was an airport at Aldridge, Staffordshire, England, serving the town of Walsall, north Birmingham, Sutton Coldfield and Lichfield (Aldridge is now part of Walsall, and in the West Midlands county).
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Walsall Arboretum
Walsall Arboretum is a Victorian public park located very close to Walsall town centre in the West Midlands.
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Walsall College
Walsall College is a further education college in Walsall, West Midlands, England.
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Walsall Courier and South Staffordshire Gazette
Walsall Courier and South Staffordshire Gazette is the earliest known newspaper to serve Walsall in the ancient county of Staffordshire, now the West Midlands.
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Walsall Cricket Club
Walsall Cricket Club is an amateur cricket club in Walsall, West Midlands, England, UK.
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Walsall F.C.
Walsall Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Walsall, West Midlands, England.
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Walsall Leather Museum
Walsall Leather Museum is located in Walsall, in the West Midlands in England, and was opened in 1988, in a Victorian factory building renovated by Walsall Council.
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Walsall Manor Hospital
Walsall Manor Hospital is an acute general hospital in Walsall, West Midlands managed by the Walsall Healthcare NHS Trust.
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Walsall Museum
Walsall Museum was a small, local history museum located in the centre of Walsall in the West Midlands.
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Walsall North (UK Parliament constituency)
Walsall North is a constituency created in 1955 represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2017 by Eddie Hughes, a member of the Conservative Party.
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Walsall railway station
Walsall railway station is the principal railway station of Walsall, West Midlands, England and situated in the heart of the town.
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Walsall South (UK Parliament constituency)
Walsall South is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2010 by Valerie Vaz, a member of the Labour Party.
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Wednesbury
Wednesbury is a market town in England's Black Country, part of the Sandwell metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, near the source of the River Tame.
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Wednesbury Town railway station
Wednesbury Town railway station was a station on the South Staffordshire Line.
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Wednesfield
Wednesfield is a historic village and residential area within the city of Wolverhampton, West Midlands.
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West Bromwich
West Bromwich is a town in the borough of Sandwell, West Midlands, England.
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West Midlands (county)
The West Midlands is a metropolitan county and city region in western-central England with a 2014 estimated population of 2,808,356, making it the second most populous county in England.
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West Midlands conurbation
The West Midlands conurbation is the large conurbation that includes the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton and the large towns of Sutton Coldfield, Dudley, Walsall, West Bromwich, Solihull, Stourbridge and Halesowen in the English West Midlands.
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West Midlands Metro
West Midlands Metro is a light-rail/tram line in the county of West Midlands, England, operating between the cities of Birmingham and Wolverhampton via the towns of West Bromwich and Wednesbury.
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Whittimere Street drill hall, Walsall
The Whittimere Street drill hall is a former military installation in Walsall, West Midlands.
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Willenhall
Willenhall is a medium-sized town in the Metropolitan Borough of Walsall, in the West Midlands, England, with a population taken at the 2011 census of 28,480.
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Wolverhampton
Wolverhampton is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands, England.
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Wolverhampton St George's tram stop
Wolverhampton St George's tram stop is a tram stop in Wolverhampton, England.
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Wombourne
Wombourne (also spelt Wombourn) is a large village and civil parish located in the district of South Staffordshire, in the county of Staffordshire, 4 miles (6 km) south-west of Wolverhampton and just outside the county and conurbation of the West Midlands.
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Woolworths Group
Woolworths Group was a listed British company that owned the high-street retail chain, Woolworths.
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World war
A world war, is a large-scale war involving many of the countries of the world or many of the most powerful and populous ones.
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World War I
World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Z-Cars
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Lancashire (now Merseyside).
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Zoe Dawson
Zoe Dawson is an English actress.
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1988 Summer Olympics
The 1988 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad (Korean), were an international multi-sport event celebrated from 17 September to 2 October 1988 in Seoul, South Korea.
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1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympic Games (Spanish: Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992; Catalan: Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event celebrated in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain in 1992.
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2004 Summer Olympics
The 2004 Summer Olympic Games (Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004), officially known as the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad and commonly known as Athens 2004, was a premier international multi-sport event held in Athens, Greece, from 13 to 29 August 2004 with the motto Welcome Home. 10,625 athletes competed, some 600 more than expected, accompanied by 5,501 team officials from 201 countries.
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2008 Summer Paralympics
The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (Chinese: 第十三屆残疾人奥林匹克运动会), the 13th Paralympics, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008.
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2012 Summer Paralympics
The 2012 Summer Paralympics, the 14th Summer Paralympic Games, and also more generally known as the London 2012 Paralympic Games, were a major international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the International Paralympic Committee (IPC), that took place in London, United Kingdom from 29 August to 9 September 2012.
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55 Degrees North
55 Degrees North is a BBC television drama series starring Don Gilet as DS Nicky Cole, a London detective relocated to Newcastle upon Tyne after exposing police corruption.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walsall